Finance Committee: 75% of customs revenues go to the spoilers
 Baghdad
Finance Committee in the House of Representatives, confirmed that 75 percent of customs revenues go into the pockets of corrupt, while in the Integrity Commission, member of the parliamentary stressed that border crossings witnessing buying and selling positions in millions of dinars operations, but the expert economy Thuraya Khazraji showed that customs revenue is not sufficient to pay staff salaries the customs.

A member of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives Masood Haider "long", "The Finance Committee will focus on the legislative term next to the House of Representatives on what will achieve the government of the customs and ports revenues border," calling on the government to "tighten control over the border crossings."
He added that "75 percent of customs revenue at border crossing points does not go vain to enter the country because of the corrupt."
And it amounted to government revenues in 2015 of customs tax 416 billion dinars, "317 million dollars", while Iraq imported during the same year goods worth $ 39 billion.
The director of the border crossing points Maj. Gen. Sami Sudanese, in a statement received "long" version of it, that "imports Directorate since the first of the month of January 2016 until the first of the month in November, amounted to more than 161 billion dinars, in addition to more than $ 22 million." .
He added that "these imports were from Safwan outlets and Shalamcheh graying and Zurbatiyah and Mandali and Mundhiriyah, as well as airports in Basra and Najaf."
On the other hand, he told the Parliamentary Integrity Commission member Mohammad fact that "The Integrity Committee hosted officials from customs, and stressed that corruption is rampant in, eg, that one car out of ten cars are subject to government procedures, and other cars go their money into the pockets of the corrupt."
He pointed out that "the quality of the goods being altered to reduce the tax," pointing out that "the positions in the border ports are being sold and purchased in a public form because it brings financial returns to some of the bodies."
He believed that "improving the functioning of border crossing points is very difficult at this stage because they occur in border areas after its distance from the regulators," and urged the government to "change the accounting departments and agencies that sell positions and buy it."
And that "the state did not get the benefit of the application of the tariff, but the interest goes to corrupt at the expense of the Iraqi people."
Truckers are suffering from the queues of up to several kilometers due to the implementation of the tariff, and complained over the "scope" of the government's actions that led to the cutting Orazkhm.
He said the truck driver, Jawad al-Rubaie, the "long" that "corruption Msthari at border crossing points and internal checkpoints that check trucks on knowledge of tax rates imposed on goods-laden truck," stressing that "some traders influential in the state are giving bribes to officials of non-subordination trucks to tariff measures and the truck up the price of thousand dollars to two thousand dollars. "
In the meantime, an economic expert, Thuraya Khazraji said, "long", "The customs system after 2003 because of the US occupation, making the country the largest importer of goods and poor quality by the neighboring countries and the failure of the productive sectors such as agriculture and industry," asserting that "significant damage hit Iraq because of the customs system is the lack of foreign reserves and going to the imports. "
She added that "customs system linking the pricing of luxury goods and the necessary price of the dollar and not the price of the dinar, and therefore prices are suffering from the volatility of which weakened the trust between the citizen and the dinar."
She noted that "the tariff regime has been frozen in the previous years and then be activated during the current year has become useless due to corruption, bribery and haggling between customs officials," indicating that "tax revenue is much lower than the tax salaries due to corruption."
And it called on the Ministry of Commerce to "intervene and regulate imports to prevent the depletion of foreign wealth."
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